Grapevine

…Olympic Seismic Data Now On-Line with Veritas GOLD Veritas GeoServices Ltd., a Veritas DGC Inc. company, announces that they have entered an initiative with Olympic Seismic Ltd. to display and distribute Olympic's entire Western Canadian seismic database on-line using Veritas GOLD. Olympic has retained a large block of Veritas GOLD…

Tracing the Industry

…Here are the latest changes in our industry: Tako Koning has spent the past four years working on a rotational basis (28 days working in Angola, 28 days off in Calgary) as Portfolio Manager, New Business for Texaco in Luanda, Angola. He flew 52 times across the Atlantic during that…

Profile of Jack Pullen

…Exploring the Possibilities for 50 Years You don't stay on the cutting edge of petroleum exploration for almost 50 years by resisting change. The secret to Jack Pullen's success has been to look forward and never backward. His career began in what can be termed the horse and buggy era…

A Proposed Seismic Operating Agreement

Doug Pruden

…Early in 1999 a group of concerned geophysical managers for various producing companies were organized by Cec Keeping into a meeting. This group, later to be called the Chief Geophysicists' Forum, intended to explore common geophysical issues for operating production / exploration companies. The meetings, first organized by Cec Keeping…

A Survey of Geophysical Work Stations – Part II

Gord Cope

…Geophysical workstations have proliferated in the petroleum sector, but not all systems are created equally. In the second of a two-part series, CSEG Recorder Magazine talks to four developers and their users to differentiate their strengths and applications. Paradigm Geophysical Over the last 17 years, geophysicist Brian McCue has seen…

Earth Science Research for the 21st Century

Stephen Calvert, Jeremy Hall and Larry Mayer

…Summary A vigorous, high quality Earth science research community in Canada brings two rewards: great new concepts and tools for Canadians working in the resource and environmental sectors; and bright, energetic recruits to the profession that, in many disciplines, will be desperately needed when many of our present community retire…

What Has APEGGA Done for Me Lately?

Gordon D. Williams

…Two characteristics mark a profession and, by extension, those who practice it, i.e., professionals. First, the mastery of a specialized body of knowledge, typically requiring long academic preparation; and second, the application of that knowledge in an ethical manner for the benefit of society and financial gain. It is the…

The Geophysicist’s Career – 30 To 50 Years

Nattalia Lea

…In the last article on the progression of the geophysicist's career, The Recorder interviewed geophysicists under 30 years of age. In this article, geophysicists between 30 to 50 years of age were interviewed. Their careers have developed, while they have managed their private lives with work and play. Most of…

Letters to the Editor

…Re: Suggested Generic Standard for SegY files of stacked data. CSEG Recorder, October 1999 "240 Byte Trace Headers" The comment that bytes 115-118 may be set, but should not be required, etc... will create problems if this information is not provided. Following are several reasons: Read errors during a copy…

Grapevine

…CTC Pulsonic Announces Award of Major 3D Processing Contract CTC Pulsonic of Calgary, which in July of this year became part of the Core Laboratories group of companies, announced that it has been awarded the seismic data processing contract for a large marine 3D project recently acquired off the East…

Tracing the Industry

…This industry certainly is cyclical and circular. In 1870, John Davison Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company, and in 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the company formed a monopoly and ordered Standard Oil to split into separate companies forming Exxon, Mobil, Chevron...et al. On September 30, 1999, the…

Profile of Ralph Steeves

…Little did Ralph Steeves know what would be ahead of him when he decided to move to Calgary in 1944. His career in geophysical field services has taken him to places many dream of travelling to and a few you don't want to think about travelling to. "I'm not a…

A Survey of Geophysical Work Stations

Gordon Cope

…Genetek Ed Gilmet is a geophysicist at Poco Petroleum, in Calgary. As team leader for northern Alberta, Gilmet is kept extremely busy ensuring that the company's substantial seismic data is properly interpreted. Three years ago, Gilmet inherited an unfamiliar workstation from a company that Poco bought out. "I was reluctant…

NSERC Funding of Earth Sciences Research in Canadian Universities: Current Status and Opportunities

Jeremy Hall

…Summary This article outlines current funding of geoscience research by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and opportunities for enhancing researchers access to its programs, especially the University-Industry Program. Preamble There is an urgent need for greater cooperative effort among the academic, government and private sectors…

Geophysicists Under 30

Nattalia Lea

…Over the next three months, the CSEG Recorder will be publishing a three-part series of articles sampling the progression of a few geophysicists throughout their careers - how they manage change and conflict, and perceive their future. We will interview young geophysicists under 30 years of age, established geophysicists between…

Seismic Data Quality Inspection (QI) Procedures

…In view of increasing concern about possible abuses of the quality inspection procedure for seismic data, the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the Canadian Geophysical Brokers Association set up a joint committee to make recommendations concerning these procedures. Their recommendations were adopted by the CSEG executive in 1987 and…

Suggested Generic Standard for SEGY Files of Stacked Data

…Although the SEC standard for SECY does not apply to stacked data, stacks have been stored on tape media for quite some time in a format roughly following the SEC publication. For tape media, the EBCDIC, the binary file header, and individual traces (single trace blocks) are put on tape,…

Grapevine

…TOR GEOscience Offers More Plotters TOR GEOscience of Calgary invites everyone to review its expanded variety of black and white printers and plotters. The Atlantek 853C continuous mode plotter with its excellent colors, high speed of 3" per second and selection of plotting medias is the most popular. Designed primarily…

Tracing the Industry

…Change in season, change in face! Fall is here, and so am I - welcome to my inaugural "Tracing the Industry" column. Even though the summer weather was bad, the market picked up significantly: global economic recovery of all commodities has helped the industry enormously. According to September's investment figures,…

Profile of L. Paul Dennis

…I was born in a small farming community in southeastern Saskatchewan while my father was training in the forces at the tail end of World War II. After the war my parents decided to take advantage of the VLA assistance to veterans and acquired a small farm. Apparently we lived…